Mick Clifford: The jury's still out on whether justice was served on Hutch

Usually, when a defendant beats the rap as he did, the general reaction is 'he got off' — in Hutch’s case, most who observed the trial came to the conclusion that anything but a ‘not guilty' verdict would have been unjust

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch leaving the Special Criminal Court after being acquitted of murder. Picture: Colin Keegan /Collins Courts

Last Monday, after he was acquitted of the charge of murder, Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch had a bit of a walkabout outside the Criminal Courts of Justice building.

Trailed by a scrum of reporters and photographers, he was trying to locate a taxi.